"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I am very much aware of that, and at least one Middle Eastern
>> government has apologized. Many governments were pursuing a diplomatic
>> solution since the publication which obviously Denmark ignored.
>> Perhaps this could have been resolved amicably much earlier and none of
>> this would have come to pass.
>
> There is more than a little irony in all this. I can understand that
> Moslems would be offended by an image of the prophet with a bomb, since it
> would characterize them as being violent. But to me, to react to the
> offensiveness of the portrayal by starting riots that have lead to murder
> and arson??? I have to say that it doesn't do much for their argument that
> it is unfair to portray them as being violent.
>
>

Right to the point!


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Peter Aitken